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A decentralised cluster planning approach holds the key to social distancing in urban public spaces.
Japan wants to assist India to improve the investment climate to attract more FDI so that New Delhi can be linked more closely with Japan–ASEAN-based supply chains.
For Russia and even Central Asian countries, China can act as a catalyst to market their hydrocarbon resources to South Asia and beyond, opening an opportunity for gas exports too. Russia's $400 billion gas deal with China is a case in point.
The Straits of Malacca is rife with several security threats, such as piracy, maritime terrorism, drug smuggling, gun running and illegal immigration. These challenges have the potential to disrupt, if not destroy, the maritime shipping in the Straits. Although regional countries have made considerable efforts to address these problems with some encouraging results, the challenges and threats are too formidable and complex for the combat capabili
The discussion at the COP26 summit was solely focused on EVs and Metro rail and left out crucial sectors of public transport and NMT
As a voice for the developing world and as the only G20 country that is on track to achieve its climate targets, India is poised to become a global cl
Undernourished people with weak immune systems and those with co-morbidities are strongly linked to adverse COVID-19 outcomes.
Various options are on the table, but given the bad experience in the pullback in June, there is need for caution.
If massive retaliation is retained in the nuclear doctrine, it will be not because of its efficacy as a strategy of deterrence.
India is set to expand its economic ties with Taiwan significantly.
The Indian Ocean is important to China because Chinese trade and energy resources transit this route.
From the time of independence, Pakistan's leaders have treated India as a Permanent Enemy. It exhibits its policy through jihad.
The COVID-19 pandemic can serve as an opportunity for India to redefine its approach to economic growth. The policy objective should be that once the threat of the current pandemic subsides, the country will not return to business-as-usual mode and rather build an economy for the future. The Indian government has declared that it is considering measures towards distress mitigation, relief disbursement, and a revival of growth. At the same time, h
More states are beginning to relax lockdown restrictions to restore normalcy with preventive measures. How did a country of 1.3 billion, with large sl
The Ministry of Defence has fixated on process rather than outcomes for decades with little effort to remedy this, stymying timely modernisation of th
While the community needed to address the elephant in the room and could not be absolved of its responsibility for wrongful acts by the Tablighi Jama
Migrant workers have perennially remained at the socio-economic margins of our society silently serving as the instrumental labour force of the urban
It is imperative that the Northeastern region be a major catalyst for India’s foreign policy in the immediate Southeast Asian neighbourhood.
Analysing the success of China’s authoritarian model and its democratic counterpart in India
Since children are less susceptible to complications from COVID-19 the vaccination in this age group poses a few dilemmas.
The pandemic will bring in more of the unorganised sector in the formal fold by means of the economic stimulus announced, and increase the government�
The ‘Make in India’ scheme launched in 2014 could be the starting point in galvanising the economic resurgence in post-pandemic India.
India stands a good chance to benefit from the shift in global trade triggered by the pandemic, and could fill in the vacuum by supplying West Asian c
The treatment of women care workers in India highlights the gendered division of work, and continued undervaluation of women’s labour and care work.
The gig economy is part of a crucial transformation occurring in India’s work landscape, and ride-hailing companies are examples of platforms on which “gigs” can be found. The Indian ride-hailing market was projected to grow by 15.5 percent until 2023; the COVID-19 pandemic, however, has disrupted the trajectory. The drivers of these companies—numbering approximately four million—are considered as “independent contractors” and thus
Like any other country Indian economy is dealing with a once-in-a-lifetime tectonic disaster.
The race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine is gaining ground in many parts of the world. This brief examines the challenges that India must hurdle to successfully manufacture and distribute a vaccine. It argues for a fair and equitable distribution of vaccine with an aim to save the maximum number of lives. It suggests a multi-parameter model based on age, co-morbidity, income and profession to justify one’s claim for vaccine. The imperative is to
